West Asian Conflagration
Iran's retaliation to Israel's invasion entails the following: 1) That the era of strategic patience is over in Iranian diplomacy. 2) Direct confrontation between Iran and Israel has effectively downgraded…
Kumar Sanjay Singh
Post Pahalgam attack: How BJP has successfully subordinated diplomacy to the politics of communal polarisation?
Post-Pahalgam attack on 22 April 2025, BJP led NDA government has racheted up a war hysteria. A majority of the Parliamentary opposition has aquised by offering unconditional support to any…
Prognosticating Trump’s tariff policy and trade war with China
Trump's attempt to pull USA out of the US laid post WWII economic order and instead take a path of isolationisn and economic protection, is perhaps the most systematic assault…
Israel’s never ending war: A strategy to encircle Iran?
With the taming of Lebanon, the US backed Lebanon/Hezbollah- Isreal ceasefire has successfully delinked Hezbollah- Isreal relations from the Palestinian question. Now the focus of Netanyahu's everlasting wars have shifted…
Trump has won what next
Trump has won the Presidential election of USA and will be the 47th President on 5th January 2025. The reason for his success are multiple: 1) Electorate doesn't like inflation,…
What do Gubernatorial appointments in Northeast foretell?
Winston Churchill is credited to have stated, ‘Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business’. The recent appointments to as many as 13 gubernatorial posts, when countdown for…
Waging peace/Making war: Curious case of another extension to AFSPA
The news of extension of AFSPA, w.e.f, 1 October 2022, though not surprising is, nonetheless, befuddling. Reports state that AFSPA has been extended for a period of six months in…
Doval doctrine casts a shadow on Naga peace process
Convening of the Emergency National Assembly on 31 May 2022 marks the apogee of the most torrid fortnight of the talks. Apparently, the fraught issue of Naga flag and constitution…
If Naga talks fail consequences will be unsavory
With the appointment of Mr. RN Ravi, the interlocutor of Indo-Naga peace process, as the Governor Nagaland on 20th July 2019 and the abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A…
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